Morning Free Association: Avalanche!

It was supposed to be the battle of the two best lines in hockey. For the most part, those two lines cancelled each other out, then it became a battle of secondary and special teams scoring. It was all going well, until the giant was felled.

The game was fast paced throughout. At one point in the second Jack Edwards stated that they lost two TV timeouts (advertising breaks) due to the fact that there were very few stoppages in play. Games are more fun when they play instead of taking constant face-offs. I bet those fans in the Pepsi Center who used the bathroom at some point had a lot of fun standing in the entryway of each section, waiting for the action to stop.

Colorado started off the scoring, when Gabriel Landeskog wrested one past Halak. I guess he needed to do something the same period that Patrice “Body Slam” Bergeron landed a hit that knocked the larger Landeskog on the ice.

I’m not sure we’re ever going to have a full complement of the defensemen who started the season on the top six. We keep worrying about what to do/ who to play when Defenseman X returns only to have Defenseman Y, and Z fall to injury.

But after that, it was all Colorado. Two power play goals reminded us that what made the Bruins penalty kill great was Chara and Carlo, neither of whom was playing in this game after the first period, or in the case of Carlo, not at all. The Avalanche had scored two more even strength goals in between those PPGs and with a 5-3 lead deep in the third, they looked well on their way to winning.

Which they did. Carl Soderberg, destroyer of Zdeno Chara, nailed the coffin shut on his former team, 6-3.

It could have been worse, by one more goal. David Krejci made a valiant effort to prevent an empty net goal. Add him to the list of Bruins who could sub in for goaltender.

Single digits this morning! The wood on my porch was popping loudly this morning!

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November 15, 2018 11:10 am

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Quaider4ever

Sunday i changed thd car oil and reset the annoying reminder…. didn’t realise i reset everything to metric. So when the temperature read -5 i.was saying “no way! I know it’s cold, but….” Only took me an hour to figure it out! !

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November 15, 2018 12:43 pm

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Satan 81's Sister

Bahahahahaha!

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November 15, 2018 12:45 pm

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IntentionallyWidenberg

It was a really fun game through the first period and up through that last DeBrusk goal. Then they started playing ‘hot potato’ with the puck. And Halak was pretty unspectacular (quite frankly, he was letting in the same sort of goals Tuukka gets raked over the coals for – short side, five hole).

So playing with 5-D (including only one top-4 player) against one of the best forward lines in the league is kind of a problem. Good to know. Hope Z is in shape to play again soon.

In the meantime, welcome to the Jakub Zboril experience.

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November 15, 2018 10:37 am

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BagelBruin

Another bites the dust!

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November 15, 2018 11:02 am

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BagelBruin

Oh hi guys. Everyone doing well?

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November 15, 2018 9:54 am

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The London Bear

Hey! How are you? Busy, busy, busy?

Canes games look fun this year. Or have you moved away?

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November 15, 2018 10:03 am

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BagelBruin

I moved back to Winston-Salem. The Raleigh experiment was a failure. What can I say? Winston-Salem is home! It took leaving for six months to discover that, but now I know.

AND HOLY SHIT. I am busy, but feeling good.

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November 15, 2018 10:27 am

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The London Bear

AND HOLY SHIT. I am busy, but feeling good

That’s good to hear. Busy is better than bored!

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November 15, 2018 10:35 am

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Quaider4ever

There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home….

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November 15, 2018 11:05 am

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Quaider4ever

Hey BB!!! Good morning!!

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November 15, 2018 11:04 am

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Quaider4ever

Hey Pals!
Got home just in time to see the wheels fall off last night. Had B2B all to myself, sadly. No one to commiserate. Jo had the game on but, mercifully, had passed out.
Carl was the Carl we hoped and dreamed for last night…. too late, too late.
I’ve criticised Chara in the past (probably unfairly, God knows what pain he’s played with o’er the years), but he has been awesome this season. Didn’t take the Avs long to take advantage of his absence. I hope it’s minor, but that looked ugly.
The other d looked okay, but….

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November 15, 2018 9:34 am

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Satan 81's Sister

Morning all. Well that’s not result I wanted to wake up to. Though it is sort of amusing scrolling through Twitter in the morning and you start seeing where things went off the rails. Catching up on overnight Twitter can be a roller coaster of emotions!

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November 15, 2018 9:13 am

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The London Bear

I watched until halfway through the second this morning – it was all looking so good then!

Seriously are defensive injuries a thing for every team or is it just the Bruins? I thought it was bad when half the first-choice D-men were out. Now it’s the lot! ALL! Crazy.

A couple of things I took from what I saw of the game though
1) Pasta on both powerplay units. Why not! I’d love to see him get to 50 this season.
2) I’m not sure how the Bs ended up on the PP for that first goal. The sequence of play seemed to be Avs number 12 getting smashed round the head with a stick and then another Av getting hooked. Still, we’re due a bit of ref luck!